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This video shares essential gardening tips and practical allotment advice to help improve growing results. It covers simple techniques that make planting, maintenance and harvesting more successful.
The guide discusses soil preparation, crop planning, watering, feeding and seasonal organisation, along with tips to avoid common beginner mistakes. It also explains how small improvements can make a big difference in productivity.
If you want to grow more successfully in your garden or allotment, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice to support healthy plants and better harvests.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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whether you're a seasoned Gardener or
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just starting out this podcast is for
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you each episode will'll dig into tips
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tricks and techniques to make your
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garden and allotment thve from planting
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sewing and growing we will share all the
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tips and AD advice we will also have
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regular episodes talking about what we
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hello everyone and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben for a brand new
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episode this week it's been a few days
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since our last episode as we have been
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extremely busy and when I say extremely
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busy we have got big plans happening and
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yeah I am sort of in the middle of
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sorting everything out regarding
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gardening with Ben and that means
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sorting out all my website I've got a
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brand new website coming I'm sorting out
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all my YouTube channel and I'm sorting
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out all my podcast channel so I'm really
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busy at the moment with getting
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everything sorted and back in order
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starting with getting everything looking
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good and hopefully fetching out more
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more content for you and if you not
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subscribed to my YouTube Channel please
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do subscribe to it gardening with Ben
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I've put on a load of new videos on that
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and there's going to be so much content
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coming on a regular basis for you to
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watch as well so if you enjoy listen
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into these podcasts why not check my
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YouTube channel out and you can check
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out all my videos as well you can see me
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face but yeah I hope that you can have a
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look and see all my videos on there and
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yeah I'm trying to get it monetized so
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obviously the more views the better
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really in that sense and I just want to
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say hello to India and the reason why I
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want to say hello to India is because I
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get stats on my podcast and it's number
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one in the home and garden channel in
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India gardening with Ben is getting out
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there so yeah thank you for everybody
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that listens in India and the rest of
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the world it's amazing I do love see in
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the stats and seeing where everybody
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listens to these podcasts so thank you
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for that so what else have we been up to
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recently but like I said I've been
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recording lots and lots of videos at the
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moment we're going to be getting so many
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videos out there at the moment for you
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all to watch and I'm going to start
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doing a little series on tips and advice
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on starting up an allotment starting it
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up from scratch and the best tips and
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advice for doing an alotment obviously I
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do make mistakes myself I get told about
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mistakes what I'm doing but it's all
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part of the learning process and I love
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sharing everything that I'm doing with
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you all in whether it be in the podcasts
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or whether it be on my YouTube channel
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so stay tuned for all that so this week
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we have been down at my allotment today
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it's been threatening with rain but we
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managed to get some stuff done down
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there uh with been doing some weeding
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we've been sorting out all of my
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pumpkins which I'm going to talk about
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in another episode on how to look after
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your pumpkins and how to get big
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pumpkins so stay tuned for that episode
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coming up uh we've been sorting out
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deheading as roses because obviously
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it's their diet you need to keep them
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dehe headed and yeah we've been checking
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on as seeds because we've got a lot of
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seeds growing at the moment uh you'll
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have seen in my previous videos that we
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have started some late June seeds off
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we've started some peas off we started
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some dwarf beans off we started some
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beetroot off some lettuce off some sweet
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corn off some turnips off and some
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radish off so yeah we've got lots of
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seeds growing and the reason why I've
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done so many seeds is because some of it
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has failed my cucumbers I've only got
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five plants growing so I wanted some
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more cucumbers growing and now I've got
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50 plants
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growing so yeah we may be inundated with
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cucumbers but stay tuned for that that
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will be epic if we have 50 plants
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growing uh my polyol won't know what to
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do with how many plants we've got
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growing of
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cucumbers I hope everybody likes
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cucumber and onion
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vinegar I know I I do but we'll be
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having them on his eyes for making us
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healthy we'll be having them in water to
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drink we'll be having cucumber for
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everything uh but yeah stay tuned for
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that so we've got all them growing also
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my sweet corn plants we have got some
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healthy sweet corn plants outside which
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are growing quite tall they're doing
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really well really well but I've not got
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enough of them so I planted a load more
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sweet corn plants to hopefully get some
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good plants growing and lots of sweet
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corn you can't be having delicious sweet
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corn down on the alotment and that is
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one of the most most favorite things
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that I'm growing at the moment but I'm
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having a few issues down there at the
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plot at the moment uh obviously I have
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trouble with the bind weed down there
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the bind weed just grows everywhere that
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keeps me so busy all the time just
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clearing it back cutting it down getting
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the roots out keeping on top of it and
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trying to get it all
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cleared and we've also got an issue with
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my Plum Tree my plum tree looks like
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it's dying off at the moment which is
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not a good sign uh I really don't know
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what's up with it I hope that it's just
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a blip and hopefully it comes back to
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life whether it's not getting enough
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water I don't know uh but I imagine it
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is getting enough water because it's
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been so wet here in the UK at the moment
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but we'll see we'll see how we get on
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and see if we can get the tree back to
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life again uh but everything else is
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coming along good we've got as letis
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nearly ready for picking
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we've got blueberries that are starting
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to turn blue we're starting to pick
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strawberries off I shared a picture of
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that of my first strawberry that I
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picked off and also I've got some more
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stuff coming for my allotment we've just
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put two new bird baths on my allotment
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as well I'm going to be sharing a video
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on them as well soon I bought two bird
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baths for my allotment to encourage the
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birds to have a swim have a drink and
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just come and chill out on my allotment
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and if it gets to hot they might want to
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have a little
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dip but yeah I bought two bird baths and
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like I always say everything from the
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podcast goes back to my allotment and
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stuff like that I invest it all back so
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that you can all see where it's all
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going so yes I know there's a few little
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adverts here and there but it all goes
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towards paying for my allotment and pays
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for this podcast so I hope that you
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carry on listening to these
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podcasts hopefully we're going to be
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getting quite a few episodes out over
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the next few days but yeah I've got an
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exciting time coming up on Friday and
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I'm off to BBC gardeners world live if
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you remember last year I went for the
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first time last year at Birmingham
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indoor arena and it was absolutely huge
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I did not realize it was going to be
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that big it it's more than a day visit
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there you could go there for a couple of
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days it's absolutely massive and as well
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as the BBC Garden world there's BBC good
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food as well so there's all food stores
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as well which is absolutely fantastic
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and I just love tasting everything as
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you going around and just trying all the
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different foods there and obviously also
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meeting all the gardening influencers
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the gardening businesses down there at
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BBC garders world and if I can get some
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free samples off people I will do I'll
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give them a little plug here and there
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on my videos and on on here but yeah it
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is good to see and it's absolutely
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phenomenal and some of the times I
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probably wouldn't even recognize if
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there was a famous person there half of
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the time uh it's hard to recognize
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people in the face sometimes uh I did
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get a few people coming up to me saying
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oh yeah I'll Garden him with Ben last
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year so if you are there on Friday if
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you're in the UK at BBC garders World
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Live come and say hello to me I am 6'5
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so I'll Stand Out from the crowd and
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you'll be able to see me and it will be
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good to meet you and hopefully I have a
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look at some of the Fantastic gardens
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around there and get some ideas for my
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own plot as well as maybe purchasing
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some plants for down at the allotment
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and hopefully sharing some advice with
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other people as well there so like I
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said we have been busy over these last
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few days with everything that's going
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off I am going to be doing a few podcast
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episodes uh I'm going to record a few in
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advance so hopefully I'll have a few for
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the next few days to listen to and I
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